Dominant Genetic Diseases

Dominant Genetic Diseases: Introduction

Dominant diseases are genetic diseases that only
require a single copy of the gene to be damaged.
This error need only be inherited from one parent in order to get the disease.
The bad gene from one parent dominates the other parent's good gene.
There is no such thing as a "carrier" of a dominant disease because everyone
who has the genetic error gets the disease.

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